Now being sold by a London-based collector at Christie's New York, the work will probably go to Japan or China

Girl With Balloon canvas ‘self-destructed’ live at Sotheby’s last week in one of the most publicised stunts in auction history

Middle Eastern and South Asian works owned by embattled Dubai-based private equity firm carry much lower estimates than prices paid a decade ago

Sotheby’s New York to sell Sleep which inspired the rapper's video fro Famous

Just when we thought Frieze week was all over, twists and turns provide high drama at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale on Friday night

Brexit and Trump's trade war with China are affecting the mood of buyers

Girl with a Balloon (2006) had just hammered at £860,000

Francis Bacon's lighter depiction of George Dyer leads auction at £17.5m, with strong prices for Hurvin Anderson, Bridget Riley and Albert Oehlen

The curvaceous M indicates a work that is "subject to right of first refusal"

Profits from the sale will support new UK arts education programme in 2019

The work, commissioned in the 1990s for $10,000, is due to be sold at Christie’s, New York for an estimated $10m to $15m

Move follows a record-breaking breaking year for Paris auctions in 2017

Our pick from this week's fairs and auctions

No buyer's premium and bidding paddles on your phone, but founder still believes holding physical auctions is key

The auction of art, antiques and works of art was cancelled an hour after its supposed start time following private deal

The work was bought by a Baton Rouge family for about $120 while travelling in London in 1958, the Wall Street Journal reports

Our pick from this week's auctions and fairs

Christie's to sell $70m painting once pledged to the Seattle Art Museum

The auction house hopes the works will surpass previous records by several million

Our pick from this week's auctions and exhibitions

The British auction house brings in former Sotheby’s financial executive Bruno Vinciguerra as part of the deal

Detroit house was saved in 2016 by the US artist Ryan Mendoza and Parks’s niece Rhea McCauley

Rockefeller auction plus leap in private and online sales drive 26% increase

A “purr-fect” ending to the story of the missing pottery object found in the collection of the artist’s secret granddaughter

Tacca's Hercules is star of the bronzes, while Carracci's military portrait and Rembrandt's print find favour where Rubens's daughter flounders in £31.1m sale

No big hitters, but overall quality and new buyers from Asia and Latin America buoyed £42.6m auction, with £5.3m record for Canova set in day sale

Bronze and marble take centre stage during Old Masters sales week, although Dresden Mars returns home without going on the block at Sotheby's

Sotheby’s withdrew bronze sculpture of Mars from auction at last minute

Christie’s introduces day sale format and established names give way to new talent